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This Month in IP: April 2026

Strong, consistent IP protections throughout U.S. history enabled the creation of innovative and useful technologies that we use regularly today. From medicine...

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C4IP Coalition Updates: April 2026

April Highlights: Celebrating World IP Day and Congressional Champions of Innovation On April 26, the global intellectual property community celebrated World Intellectual...

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Inventor Spotlight: Alexander Graham Bell

C4IP is recognizing Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), whose invention of the telephone 150 years ago revolutionized communication around the world. Bell was...

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IP Shapes the Sports We Love, From the Opening Play to the Final Whistle — and Beyond

Every April 26, World Intellectual Property Day invites us to recognize the role that intellectual property (IP) plays in driving innovation and...

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Fact Check: The ETHIC Act Targets a Problem That Doesn’t Exist

Congress is considering a bill, the Eliminating Thickets to Increase Competition (ETHIC) Act, that would undermine innovation by preventing patent owners from...

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C4IP Coalition Updates: March 2026

March Highlights: Countering Chinese Threats to IP In March, China released its 15th Five-Year Plan — an economic policy roadmap that envisages...

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This Month in IP: March 2026

Strong, consistent IP protections throughout U.S. history enabled the creation of innovative and useful technologies that we use regularly today. From movies...

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Op-Ed from former USPTO Director David Kappos: The Nobel Prize winners have a lesson for us all

In a piece published by Fortune, C4IP Co-Chair and former USPTO Director David Kappos explains how the work of three Nobel Prize-winning...

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Continued Innovation is the Key to Maintaining U.S. National Security

The New York Times Editorial Board recently released a multi-part series, “Overmatched,” exploring the ways in which “the U.S. military is ill...

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New Op-Ed from Ambassador Jeffrey Gerrish and former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu: Foreign nations profited off of us — now Trump is striking back

Ambassador Jeffrey Gerrish, former deputy U.S. Trade Representative, and Andrei Iancu, C4IP co-chair and former USPTO director, recently published an opinion piece...

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Fact Check: Limiting Injunctive Relief Harms, Not Helps, Inventors

Among the most consequential foreign policy developments is the European Union’s (EU’s) consideration of policies that could limit access to injunctive relief....

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Inventor Spotlight: James West and Gerhard Sessler

C4IP is recognizing James West (born 1931) and Gerhard Sessler (born 1931), whose invention of the electret microphone transformed the way the...

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C4IP Q&A Series: Revisiting Interview with Senator Thom Tillis,

06/27/2023
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Celebrating American Innovation: John Korbel, The Wright Brothers, and Dr. John Gorie,

06/20/2023
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The Bayh-Dole Act Does Not Impede Knowledge Sharing,

06/16/2023
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Celebrating American Innovation: Willis Carrier,

06/08/2023
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Celebrating American Innovation: Dr. Daniela Blanco, Dr. Maria Artunduaga, and Briselda Hernandez,

05/31/2023
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C4IP visits IP-dependent businesses in Los Angeles with WIPO Director General Daren Tang,

05/26/2023
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Fact Check: Senator Sanders’ Misguided Hearing,

05/23/2023
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IP Policy Transcends Partisanship,

05/18/2023
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Patents are the Key in the Race to Out-Innovate China,

05/17/2023
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Inventor Spotlight: Florence Parpart,

05/09/2023
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An Expanded TRIPS Waiver is Unnecessary,

05/03/2023
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Celebrate Women Inventors on World IP Day,

04/26/2023
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